I can’t think of a better way to inaugurate this site’s long-overdue redesign than with this Paperrad DVD trailer.

Cheers.

I’m a full-blown Wikipedia addict, though not a “Wikipedian”—I don’t have the time to contribute much, but I can’t go long without instant access to Wikipedia for answers to every other question that pops into my head. Thus, it doesn’t take much to get me to tell you what I’ve been reading on there lately. [...]

You look like you could use a Kevin Kelly article on the wonder of it all. His ‘We Are the Web‘ cover story for Wired should do the trick. It starts off in familiar territory:
Coming out of the industrial age, when mass-produced goods outclassed anything you could make yourself, this sudden tilt toward consumer involvement [...]

In his new meditation on the turntable in ctheory, Seattle writer Charles Mudede calls upon Heidegger, Marx, Walter Benjamin, Afrofuturist David Goldberg, DJ Marley Marl, Russian Formalist Viktor Shklovsky and, unfortunately, Tone Loc to shed light on the true essence of the turntable. Very much worth a read, as he goes miles beyond the typical [...]